Ron Garret  <rNOSPAMon@flownet.com> wrote:
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|  luis.oliveira@deadspam.com (Luís Oliveira) wrote:
| > Please, tell me what matters in today's world so that I
| > can work on that.
| 
| Sockets.  Database connectivity.  Threads.
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Which is why I love Lisp!! For my very first serious production
Common Lisp app[1] I whipped up a persistent application server
behind Apache, connecting with a "mod_lisp"-like protocol via
Unix-domain sockets to CMUCL -- creating a new CMUCL thread for
each HTTP request -- talking to PostgreSQL with Eric Marsden's
PG library. [And Tim Bradshaw's HTOUT, though you didn't ask
about HTML generation...]  All of my time was spent on making
my app do the right *application* stuff [and a certain amount of
web-page design tweaking]; the socket/SQL/thread stuff "just worked".

So... What was the problem again?


-Rob

[1] Written in Fall 2002/Winter 2003, and still running. The CMUCL
    server runs continuously [except when they take the co-lo host
    down for some kind of maintenance], and I've updated the app
    several times without stopping or reloading it. It just keeps
    runnning & running & running..

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